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It is probably a microphyte capable of development within the human organism—capable also of a prolonged independent existence under favorable circumstances outside of the body, and of again giving rise to the disease.

The infective group includes those tumors whose structure is closely allied to that of the products of inflammation, but whose origin is the direct result of the introduction from without of a microphyte.

Not every animal is influenced by the same microphyte.

Microphyte, mī′krō-fīt, n. a microscopic plant, esp. one parasitic.—adjs.